{"id":751810,"date":"2018-03-09T12:43:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751810"},"modified":"2018-03-09T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:44:07","slug":"sans-beast-vegan-accessories-brand-reflects-global-shift-to-ethical-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751810","title":{"rendered":"Sans Beast: Vegan accessories brand reflects global shift to ethical fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GEORGINA SAFE:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Cathryn Wills was working as the managing and creative director of accessories brand Mimco when she watched Cowspiracy, a documentary about the impact of animal agriculture on the environment. &#8220;I realised I&#8217;d been closing my eyes to a number of issues so I did a lot of reading about animal welfare, then I became vegetarian nearly three years ago,&#8221; she says. &#8220;The fact that I was heading up a large leather accessories business progressively became incongruous for me.&#8221; So Wills quit her job.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;When I walked away in mid 2016 I needed to take some time out to think about what was next \u2013 but I knew that it had to be creative and it had to be non-leather,&#8221; she says. The result is her new vegan accessories brand Sans Beast, born of the Melbourne-based designer&#8217;s twin passions for good design and the ethical treatment of animals. &#8220;I&#8217;m very committed to animals and the more I learn about factory farming, the more I want to make a difference to their situation,&#8221; says Wills&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afr.com\/lifestyle\/sans-beast-vegan-accessories-brand-reflects-global-shift-to-ethical-fashion-20180206-h0un3n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED VIDEO:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7hyW93_56Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGINA SAFE: &#8216;Cathryn Wills was working as the managing and creative director of accessories brand Mimco when she watched Cowspiracy, a documentary about the impact of animal agriculture on the environment. &#8220;I realised I&#8217;d been closing my eyes to a number of issues so I did a lot of reading about animal welfare, then I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[31,38],"class_list":["post-751810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","tag-farming","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751813,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751810\/revisions\/751813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}